Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-16 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: Henning Makholm wrote: Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t value with a %u or %d format string, which will break if size_t is

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: [1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: #!/bin/sh # Do the Solaris Dance: if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 $@ fi Umm.. Ick it woudl be better as if [ -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-08-10 Thread Philip Brown
[1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts: #!/bin/sh # Do the Solaris Dance: if [ ! -d ~root ] ; then exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 $@ fi sigh.. okay, my correction had bugs, too :-) better as if [ ! -d ~root -a -x /usr/xpg4/bin/sh ] ; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Accepted kdrill 6.4-2 (sparc source all)

2005-03-17 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:32:11 -0500 Source: kdrill Binary: kanadic kdrill makedic Architecture: source sparc all Version: 6.4-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown

Accepted filter 2.6.3-1 (sparc source)

2004-12-23 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:31:48 -0500 Source: filter Binary: filter Architecture: source sparc Version: 2.6.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted kdrill 6.3.1-1 (sparc source all)

2004-02-17 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:55:54 +0200 Source: kdrill Binary: kanadic kdrill makedic Architecture: source sparc all Version: 6.3.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown

Accepted filter 2.4.2-1 (i386 source)

2003-09-17 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:14:43 +0200 Source: filter Binary: filter Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.4.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted kdrill 6.2.1-1 (i386 source all)

2003-09-15 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:55:54 +0200 Source: kdrill Binary: makedic kanadic kdrill Architecture: source i386 all Version: 6.2.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown

Re: W3C recommendations

2003-04-14 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 07:38:00AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: (Personally, I'd vote against a proposal to make it mandatory. We have more than enough release-critical issues at the moment - cleaning up documentation to conform completely to W3C standards and recommendations is probably

keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
Has anyone noticed that someone has pseudo-hijacked keyserver.debian.org.com Is this supposed to be there? It seems to be kinda worrying that someone has registered that hostname. Particularly since I found it by doing a dns lookup of keyserver.debian.org and the host I'm on, fell through to

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: ... Particularly since I found it by doing a dns lookup of keyserver.debian.org keyring.debian.org is the secret sauce perhaps the appropriate person for debian might put in a CNAME record?

Re: keyserver.debian.org.com

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Brown
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:29:31PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: I have only ever seen browsers do this kind of nonsense. I have never seen nslookup, dig, or host, attempt such lame lookup methods before. live and learn: -- Script started on Tue

Accepted kdrill 6.0-1 (source all alpha)

2002-10-28 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:01:02 -0400 Source: kdrill Binary: makedic kanadic kdrill Architecture: source alpha all Version: 6.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown

Accepted kdrill 5.12.2-1 (source all alpha)

2002-09-01 Thread Philip Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:00:10 +0200 Source: kdrill Binary: makedic kanadic kdrill Architecture: source alpha all Version: 5.12.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Philip Brown

Re: Recommending non-free software

2002-04-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:50:51PM +0200, Stefan Schwandter wrote: ... And it doesn't make sense if I compile the program with lesstif, as long as upstream doesn't want to support it, because if people file bug reports against snd in debian, and I forward it to him, he'll most probably not

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Philip Brown
[ Craig Sanders writes ] On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:26:25AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: And in the case of the debian mailing lists, you should reply to the list. bullshit. some replies should go to the list, and some replies should be private. it's up to the person writing the reply

Re: mailing-list mgmt (was: Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long))

2001-01-04 Thread Philip Brown
[ Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr writes ] On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:43:05 -0800, Philip Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So headers should be optimized for group discussion. Replying to individuals is a secondary function. not at all. replying to individuals is an essentail function

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] ... Try mutt and its L command. The L command means list-reply, aka only send a message to the list, not to all recepients. It also sets a header flag so that other well-behaved MUA's don't send you an extra copy of their replies since you will get it on the list anyway.

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which reminds me, why doesn't this list just set: reply-to: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Because it's completely wrong. Doing so takes the choice of who to reply to (the sender or the list) out of the hands of the reader

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: As opposed to the current scheme, which also requires annoying manual editing of addresses to reply to the list, if your mailreader does the reasonable thing and assumes you want to reply to the original sender of the message

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Nathan E Norman writes ] ... On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:11:21PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: I guess YOUR mailreader is too old or disfunctional to be worth discussing I did not request you to Cc me. But you replied to the list AND me. ... Since you've set the Reply-To: header

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ Miles Bader writes ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: I guess YOUR mailreader is too old or disfunctional to be worth discussing I did not request you to Cc me. But you replied to the list AND me. Because that is the most useful action for mail followups in the absence

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] A different list that I am on does the Reply-To munging. This means that if I hit group-reply (when I use an MUA that doesn't understand lists) the list will get 2 copies : 1 in the To and 1 in the CC field. Is this really what you want? Getting double mail on the list?

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
[ D-Man writes ] On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:30:39PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: Funny, you just did exactly that. If your mailreader was better, you would have a better functioning group-reply. Umm, no I wasn't complaining about my mailreader, but one that I don't use now. I solved

Re: menu-policy: education

2000-12-28 Thread Philip Brown
[ Ben Armstrong writes ] So, for subsections perhaps: ... Education/Language qvocab I'd love an Education/Language section too. I'm not really happy with any of the Menu choices available for my kdrill program, which is a vocabulary quiz program,and dictionary for kanji. The